Here is this week’s short answer version of the Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
1. How long has Gitmo been open?
2. What place did Jon Huntsman get in the New Hampshire primary?
3. This country’s biometric scheme that is designed to help the poor is being criticized across the globe.
4. A space probe from this country crashed into the Pacific Ocean over the weekend.
5. This U.S. bank says that it may close some of its operations in the United States if its financial problems continue.
6. This Republican presidential candidate has criticzed President Obama’s handling of a recent incident where four marines are accused of desecrating the corpses of Afghans.
7. Protesters are calling for early elections and the ouster of President Traian Basescu in this country.
8. This city school system is going to start monitoring its students health habits via an electronic monitoring system.
9. A cruise ship ran aground off the coast of this European country, leaving five dead and seventeen missing.
10. How many nations had their credit ratings cut by S&P last week?